{"id":35304,"date":"2014-09-24T16:40:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=35304"},"modified":"2014-09-24T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:10:15","slug":"citizen-can-declare-belong-religionhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/citizen-can-declare-belong-religionhc","title":{"rendered":"Citizen can declare that he does not belong to any religion:HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21358\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-civic-body-form-policy-bandra-fair\/bombay-high-court-7\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?fit=504%2C432&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"504,432\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bombay-High-Court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?fit=150%2C128&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?fit=291%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-21358\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Bombay-High-Court-291x250.jpg?resize=291%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bombay-High-Court\" width=\"291\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?resize=291%2C250&amp;ssl=1 291w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?resize=150%2C128&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?w=504&amp;ssl=1 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0In a significant judgement, the Bombay High Court has held that the government cannot compel any person to declare his religion in any document, form or declaration.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing a PIL filed by three individuals, a bench of justices Abhay Oka and A S Chandurkar ruled that every citizen in India, which was a secular democratic republic, had the right under the Constitution to state that he or she does not belong to any religion and does not practice or profess any religion.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre and Maharashtra Government had stated that &#8220;No Religion&#8221; filled up in official forms cannot be treated as a religion or a form of religion.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Article 25 of the Constitution which guarantees right to freedom of conscience, the bench held that such a right conferred on a citizen includes a right to openly say that he or she does not practice any religion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India is a secular democratic republic and there is complete freedom for any individual to decide whether he or she wants to adopt or profess any religion,&#8221; the judges said in their judgement yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a person is practising any particular religion, he or she can give up that religion and claim that he or she does not belong to any religion,&#8221; the bench observed.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners &#8212; Dr Ranjit Mohite, Kishore Nazare and Subhash Ranware &#8212; had approached the State printing press seeking issuance of a gazette notification that they belonged to &#8220;No religion&#8221;. The State had rejected their application, following which they approached the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner said they belonged to an organisation named Full Gospel Church of God which has 4000 members. Though the name of this organisation suggests that it may be a Christian body, the organisation does not believe in any religion, much less Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>They said that although they believed in Jesus Christ they did not believe in Christianity or any religion. They further said that they had a right under the Constitution to state that they were not following any religion.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre and Maharashtra Government opposed their plea saying &#8220;No Religion&#8221; filled up in official forms cannot be treated as a religion or a form of religion.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court, however, was of the view that India was a secular democratic republic with no state religion.<\/p>\n<p>It held that no State authority can infringe upon a person&#8217;s right guaranteed under Article 25 of the Constitution i.E freedom of conscience and freely practising, professing or propagating any religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In a significant judgement, the Bombay High Court has held that the government cannot compel any person to declare his religion in any document, form or declaration. 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